Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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